Lord's test first day

[Luis Anaconda]

I was just thinking whether there was a clerical cricket team to be had. Ollie Pope, Ian Bishop, Matt Prior. Any more?

There was a John Nunn who played for Middlesex in the dim and distant past. If you just tweak it to religious connection you could probably fit the three Chappell brothers in there, surely and play it at the (Council of) Trent Bridge

[Burney]

There was a John Nunn who played for Middlesex in the dim and distant past. If you just tweak it to religious connection you could probably fit the three Chappell brothers in there, surely and play it at the (Council of) Trent Bridge

Ooh, very good. Also, Kyle Abbott.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Lovely oopo Norf as well, soft southern shandy drinking ****e weather *******s

Craft beer drinking daan Saaf. None of this shandy ****

[Pokster]

Ooh, very good. Also, Kyle Abbott.

Wasn't David Shephard an actual rev or something?

[Luis Anaconda]

Wasn't David Shephard an actual rev or something?

Bishop of Liverpool - not the DS who was an umpire though, a previous one

[Ash]

Adam Gilchrist?

[Burney]

Adam Gilchrist?

Awwwww, look...!

[Ash]

I suppose Alan Lamb is pushing it a bit but Harry Dean, once of Lancashire, is surely an early pick.

[Ash]

Ridiculous, b - it's gorgeous outside. Oh, wait - that's right, I don't live round the corner from Lord's anymore. How annoying

Did I mention that on a recent visit to Highgate West Cemetery the tour included William Lillywhite, pioneer of roundarm bowling? The grave is very close to the gate at the top of the hill and the stone has the image of a ball clattering through the stumps. The old death rattle. Quite good, I thought.

[redgunamo]

There was a John Nunn who played for Middlesex in the dim and distant past. If you just tweak it to religious connection you could probably fit the three Chappell brothers in there, surely and play it at the (Council of) Trent Bridge

And Tom Parsons? He's even one of yours, isn't he?